Cinematic Opening Title Redux – Day 1

on Jan 26th 2009 with 177 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: After Effects, Various scripts & plugins
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Run Time: 45:58 min

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

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In this 2 part tutorial we revisit the Cinematic Opening concept with an homage to all of you, our readers, by enshrining all of the comments left on the site in a “ready for Hollywood” delivery. It features a clever use of freely available scripts and expressions to create what would normally be a very complicated and time-consuming animation. The tutorial will be split into 2 days with a total of over 80 minutes of training.

In day 1 we cover cunning techniques to harness a large amount of text and quickly format and animate it in a cinematic style. This tutorial has tricks and techniques that should appeal to all users from beginners all the way to the most seasoned and advanced users of After Effects.

And best of all, it is all created by only using built it After Effects tools!

You can watch Day 2 of this tutorial here

Tutorial

Download Tutorial .flv

File size MB

Scripts used in this tutorial


First watch this tutorial on how to install and run scripts in After Effects

Then download and install these scripts:
1. 3D Text Creator Script (download 3D_text_creator_from_file.jsx)
2. 3D Layer Distributor Script (download 3D_text_creator_from_file.jsx)
3. Random Layer Shifter Script (download LayerRandomShifter 1.1)
4. Shift Selected Layers Script (download pt_ShiftLayers_v2.0.zip)
5. rd_KindaSorta Script (download rd_KindaSorta_v1.2.zip)
6. rd_Slicer Script (download rd_Slicer_v2.0.zip)

Music and Images used in the final piece


Extraterrestrial from AUDIO JUNGLE
Reflection Nebulas in Orion from NASA
In the Center of Reflection Nebula NGC 1333 from NASA

 
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  • Tiago

    Hi Lloyd.
    Where is part-1?

    Please upload Part-1 again.

    Tks,

  • Bill

    Why does the tutorial play as tutorial 2??
    I downloded it and the download is also part 2.

  • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller

    It’s fixed… the tutorial is back online.

  • http://manhattancitylimo.com Collin Boyette

    Nice post. But I would appreciate as would many others if you put up some pictures to go with the content as well.

  • http://www.vimeo.com/18094275 James Boulding

    Here’s my effort of the title sequence integrated into a teaser for a kitesurfing vide i’m making

    http://www.vimeo.com/18094275

  • http://www.bpbotpro.com Delmar Mistler

    Great post. I have been lurking around your blog reading articles as they pop up on my rss but never commented before.

  • Christopher

    I paid for the premium subscription to get the source files for this, but can’t seem to find them.

    Please advise?

    • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller

      I’m sorry, this post was created before we started requiring project files be submitted with the tutorial, shoot me an email at ae@tutsplus.com if you’d like.

  • Kelvin

    Aww…. the song link is dead. What a pity! Was a great song too!

  • http://www.freifilms.com Daniel

    Hi
    First of course thank you for the tutorial. Very well explained and great vision in terms of coming up with it. Now, I know I’m late in replying to this but I just discovered the tutorial.

    I’m tweaking this tutorial to fit my needs and one thing I just can’t get to work is a fade out using the same expressions (of course adjusted to a fade out) Alvarez used to fade in the texts. Basically, using sliders to control the fade out depending on the texts position in relation to the camera. So that eventually the layers would not only fade in but also fade out. Whenever I do that only either the fade out works or the fade in.

    Anybody out there who can help me get my expression right for that one? I know I’m late so no worries if everybody ignores me hahaha – but thx in advance…

    THX

  • http://clandroidsc2.com/forum razoray

    This is awesome. Would it be possible to follow this tutorial and create an animated banner that would autoplay?

  • Cheryl

    Great Tutorial! Created this last year and recently a re-edit. Here is my version starting at 2:08

    http://www.vimeo.com/20343365

  • http://iosvsvmkl.gov Rachal Etzel

    Great information once again! Thanks a lot=)

  • Rodrigo

    Hi, I’m downloading the tutorial. May I ask you one thing? I want to make the blue and red offset from the borders of the footage. Is that explained on this tutorial? I SO want to make that effect.
    Thank you!

  • Fishie

    if you did almost exactly what what the video did..
    what settings would you use to render it?

  • Andriyas

    Where I can download this music cause it’s awesome but link on AudioJungle isn’t working. Please, help!

  • Dranz

    Hi your work is amazing, but the audio link is broken …. I hope you can upload the audio again, THXX

  • Anilio

    Dear reader,

    Very nice effect.

    I am truing to use it also, but i have a problem.
    If i use the 3d textreator from file it does exactly what you mentioned except al my text has 3 diffrent colors, red/pink/orange and what effer i try the color wont change.
    i tried to each single layer to change text color to diffrent but noting happens.. could you help me??

    Or doi something wrong.. pleas help..

    Thanks thanks

  • jackjohnson

    Thanks for this wonderful toturial. I had a problem saving teh script modification. It shows an error when I save the script. Please someone can help me?

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  • Steve

    Hi. Seems like a great effect and I know this tut is old… but I can’t seem to access the tutorial video. Is this video still online? There might be an issue on my end but thought I’d check if it was still available.

    Thanks

    • Steve

      Nevermind… it works. :-) Great tutorial!

  • Mikus

    Really good tutorial,but how in the heck are we supposed to do it if we have to pay for the scripts? I thought we’ll find them in some source files but no…that’s a kicker..

    • Mikus

      cut this, I was blind for a few moments…

  • Zafar Sahel

    So Fucking awesome

    i am really Excited for this

  • yu

    do i need to buy a scripts ?

  • lame

    If you have to install scripts, which you have to purchase outside of what comes with the standard Adobe installation, then it is NOT all created by only using built it After Effects tools.

    This is a bait and switch.

    • schylerr

      its actually a “name your price” model– so you could pay nothing. read before you complain.

  • schylerr

    very good tut– didnt really know anything about scripts and now i see all the possibilities. Great work.

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